brainwork
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Origin of brainwork
Example Sentences
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There is relief, intoxication, even temporary salvation in this kind of brainwork that so differs from the frontal lobe activities that dominate the rest of my day.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
An idea is neither the words that express it nor the brainwork that conceives it: These are only the vehicles that transport the immaterial thought into the material world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2016
Summer is when readers are traditionally supposed to reach for something undemanding: easy reads that require little brainwork as we lounge in the sun.
From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2015
After Hiroshima, that feeling of separation between everyday people and the intellectuals employed to think up the bomb got bigger, amplified by the terrifying consequences of all that brainwork.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013
They are listening, analyzing, visualizing, sequencing, and applying concentrated brainwork to understand what they are singing.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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